By ANI
WASHINGTON: Hollywood star Dwayne Johnson has confirmed that he won’t be showing in any future ‘Fast and Furious’ motion pictures whereas responding to feedback made by his former co-star Vin Diesel.
According to Fox News, Diesel had earlier claimed that he needed to give a few of his ‘Fast and Furious’ co-stars some “tough love,” to which Johnson “laughed” at.
In an interview revealed on Wednesday by The Hollywood Reporter, Johnson mentioned, “I laughed and I laughed hard. I think everyone had a laugh at that. And I’ll leave it at that. And that I’ve wished them well. I wish them well on ‘Fast 9.’ And I wish them the best of luck on ‘Fast 10’ and ‘Fast 11’ and the rest of the ‘Fast and Furious’ movies they do that will be without me.”
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During an interview with a information outlet in June, Diesel had lastly addressed the stress between him and Johnson, which reportedly started after the 2 stopped filming ‘The Fate of the Furious’ again in 2016.
Diesel instructed the outlet, “It was a tough character to embody, the Hobbs character. My approach at the time was a lot of tough love to assist in getting that performance where it needed to be. As a producer to say, okay, we’re going to take Dwayne Johnson, who’s associated with wrestling, and we’re going to force this cinematic world, audience members, to regard his character as someone that they don’t know–Hobbs hits you like a ton of bricks.”
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Speaking additional on the topic, he added, “That’s something that I’m proud of, that aesthetic. That took a lot of work. We had to get there and sometimes, at that time, I could give a lot of tough love. Not Felliniesque, but I would do anything I’d have to do in order to get performances in anything I’m producing.”
Diesel and Johnson’s feud had allegedly began after Johnson shared a publish wherein he referred to as his male co-stars of the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise “candy a–es.” Although Johnson by no means named Diesel particularly, it was rumoured that Johnson believed the actor was troublesome to work with.
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